Bihar boxer shown the door for not shaving

By Nandakumar Marar

PIMPRI, JAN. 10. Bihar's flyweight boxer S.K. Fahim suffered the ignominy of being disqualified for not shaving. He stepped into the ring for the quarterfinal bout against Bengal's Sarfaroz Alam in the 47th Senior National Boxing Championships, was sent back to the blue corner by the referee, Mr. Parmar, who waived a hand across his own face to signal the reason for the disqualification to the ringside judges.

Fahim had been ruled not eligible to fight because of a stubble on his chin, for attempting to defy the rule that every competitor has to shave before stepping into the ring. The logic behind the ruling is simple - hairs on the jaw can result in the skin peeling off the face after a punch in the course of a fight. Fahim was disqualified because he forgot to take care of his own safety.

The Bihar team management has filed a written protest.

The third bout of the day saw Tamil Nadu's flyweight Karl Marx defeating Olympian Suresh Singh of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) when the referee stopped the contest in the second round of the quarterfinal. The reason being a cut suffered by Suresh Singh over his left eye, forcing a RSC due to injury. Marx must consider him fortunate to have survived two rounds against the stocky international, let alone win it.

The results:

Quarterfinals:

Light fly: Bhim Singh (Police) bt Mohd Safdar Khan (Steel Plants) pts; Mohd. Ali Qamar (RSCB) bt S.B. Thapa (AP) w/o.

Fly: Karl Marx (TN) bt Suresh Singh (CISF) RSC (inj) 2nd; Sarfaroz Alam (Ben) bt S.K. Fahim (Bih) disqualified.

Bantam: P. Bipin (SSCB) bt Vinod Saini

(Rajasthan) RSC (4); Mujtaba Kamal (Ben) bt Birju Sah (Steel Plants).

Pre-quarterfinals:

Fly: Bhola Murmu (SSCB) bt Ahidur Rehman (Asm) RSC (1); Torak Khapran (Meg) bt Navin Surwade (Mah) RSC (4); H. Srinivas Rao (RSCB) bt Sanjay Tagore (Del) RSC (2); A.L. Lakra (Steel Plant) bt P. Yakub Khan (AP) RSC (3); Suresh Singh (CISF) bt S.K. Thapa (AR) pts; Karl Marx (TN) bt Navin Dev (Har); Sarfraz Alam (Ben) bt Sunil Kumar (Raj) RSC (4); Dinesh Kumar Yadav (MP) bt S.K. Fahim (Bih) pts.

Bantam: Vinod Saini (Raj) bt Paramjit Singh (MP) RSC (2); Bipin P (SSCB) bt R. Kannan (TN) RSC (3); Birju Sah (Steel Plant) bt Virendra Singh (U.P.) pts; Mustaba Kamal (Ben) bt Puran Rawat (AR) pts; Baba Islam Khan (Kar) bt Dularam Marandi (Ori) pts; Dharambir Singh (Har) bt Tara Singh (Pun) pts; Lakhwinder Singh (RSCB) bt Rajaram (Pondicherry) pts; Mangesh Kamble (CISF) bt G. Vishwanath (Goa) RSC (3); Naveen Poojary (Mah) bt Sukhwinder Singh (AIEB) pts; Rishikanta Yurambam (AR) bt Karan Sonkar (MP) pts; Rotan Mawia (CISF) bt Kamal Kumar (Bih) pts; Tauseef Khan (Steel Plant) bt Santosh Birmole (Goa) RSC (3); Ramesh Basnet (RSCB) bt Rakesh Kumar (Pun) RSC (0); Ramanand (SSCB) bt Mahavir Singh (Del) RSC (0); Janardhan Yadav (U.P.) bt Mohd Tariq (Ben) RSC (O); Rajneesh (Har) bt Mukesh (Meg) RSC (O).

Light: Zahid Hussain (Del) bt Pushpendra Srivastav (MP) pts; Adinarayan Chipulla (AP) bt Rajkumar (Kar) RSC (1); Suranjeet (AR) bt Abhisek (U.P.) RSC (2); Anil (Har) bt Bhera Ram (Raj) disqualified; Narendra Rana (SSCB) bt V. Bhaskaran (RSCB) pts; Ram Jagtap (Mah) bt S.R. Rai (Ori) RSC (O); Harender Kumar (Pun) bt Vikas Bharadwaj (Chn) pts; Praveen Kumar (CISF) bt V. Lenis Verghese (TN) RSC (O).

Light-welter: Manoj Kumar (Ker) bt Mukesh Singh (Bih) pts; Som Bahadur Pun (SSCB) bt Ajay Sagar Yadav (U.P.) RSC (O); K. Sanjit Singh (AR) bt Sachin Kumar (Cha) RSC (O); Harikrishnan (AP) bt Mahanand (CISF) RSC (O); Shiv Kumar Yadav (Bih) bt Om Prakash (Cha) Retd; D. Bhagyarajan (SSCB) bt Manjit Singh (Del) pts; Sashikant (Har) bt Ishwar Rawat (Meg) retd; Alam Saiful (Ben) bt Pawan Kumar (Pol) pts; Bikramjit Singh Brar (Pun) bt G. Gopinath (TN) RSC (I); Kuldeep Singh (AIEB) bt Vinodhan (Pond) RSC (O).

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